OK, so it’s not that bad. Actually it’s pretty awesome if I do say so myself. It just doesn’t get updated very often.

There are several reasons for my absence of late and they’re all perfectly valid excuses so I don’t want any lip from either of you (my 2 loyal readers):

1. Work.

   Contrary to popular belief, you don’t automatically become a millionaire when you sign a record deal. Actually, it’s quite the opposite. I like to compare it to taking out a multi-million dollar loan that you don’t get to spend on what you want but you’re still responsible for paying back.

   Anyway, the point is, I have a “real” job these days and its not one where I can sit around and blog all day and get paid for it. If I did there would be a lot more to read here, and a lot less going on here.

2. Other Work.
   In the interest of me having more money (so I can pay my bills and pay off this awesome couch I’m still paying for), I’ve taken on a few freelance jobs here and there. These things take time. Time that I have to find outside of my full time job and the next few items on this list.
3. Sinch.

   In case you live under a rock that hasn’t moved in almost 14 years, you probably know that I play the drums in a band called Sinch. No we haven’t broken up. And no we’re probably not playing in Germany, France, Australia, South Africa or anywhere else any time soon. What we are doing is working on a new album. Currently in the writing/pre-production stage, we’re getting together a couple times during the week and a couple weekends a month.

   That’s another 4-8 hours a week I’m busy “not-blogging.”

4. Unnamed New Music Project

   I recently decided to fill out the last remaining bits of my free time with something a little more productive than dicking around on Facebook. In other words, I joined a new band.

   So far there’s a few songs coming together but no name for the band or any plans beyond “write more songs.” I’ll let you know when that changes. Whatever the name ends up being, it should probably be short because we’ll have to follow it with something like:

   “Featuring members of Sinch, Brass, Engine We’re a Forest & Moth Meets Machine”

5. Life

   On top of all that, I actually like to find a little time to go out and interact with other people. I know, it’s a crazy idea. But if I’m gonna “poke” someone I’d rather do it in person.

I could actually add more to this list, but there are 10 other things I’m supposed to be doing right now, so I’ll leave the excuse count at 5 for now. Don’t worry, I’ll have more excuses for why I’m not blogging soon.

Four and a half months in and I’m on my way to having more than one blog post.

Right on schedule.

I really want to get things started here and from what I’ve read on some good frequently updated blogs, I need to stop thinking so much about what I want to write and just start writing. I already have a lot of ideas of what I want to write about here — Stuff that doesn’t really make sense to post on the Sinch blog: design, typography, photography (not of the band),  movies, food and of course anything and everything related to Big Trouble in Little China.

Those things don’t really feel right on the Sinch blog. I am a member of the band and have handled 99% of the blogging since we first started using Blogger (before Google bought it). But since we’ve combined the News and Blog sections I think there’s a line that’s crossed when I start posting anything I want, especially when band updates are few and far between as they have been recently. People visit our site to find out about the band, not not to dig through whatever insane nonsense I might be in the mood to talk about that day. That’s why you come here!

There’s really no other point to this post but to bridge the 4 month gap between launching the site and what’s coming up: actual blog posts (now with content!). I’m gonna go out on the proverbial limb here and say that there will be a couple new posts up by the time this weekend’s through. We’ll see if it holds (the limb, of course).

I’ve been building websites for a pretty long time now. I built my first site back in 1997 for my band. Over the years I spent a lot of time constantly redesigning that site and building all the sites I’ve done for companies I’ve worked for, but somehow I’ve never really had my own personal site.

I’ve been planning on building my own site for almost 2 years now. I bought this domain name in 2006 and so far all I’ve ever had here was a temporary landing page that said “coming soon….” So, it feels good to finally have something substantial.

I’ll be adding a lot of my recent work over the next few days. If you’re reading this, the site is obviously live, but I may still be working on it. I got rid of the temporary page while I build everything out so for a few days, at least, it’s gonna look pretty half-assed. I’m sure there’s some way I can work on it while keeping anyone else from accessing it, but that’s just one more thing to distract me from actually getting it done, so I’m not even gonna worry about it.

In honor of my humble beginnings in the days of 1990’s web design, here’s the obligatory “under consctruction” graphic: